Cosma Empire

"The snow this year is really not small. Last time I heard someone say that it was caused by the gradual popularization of coal burning and Yaojing products. The place where we live is covered with a glass cover. If the temperature inside the glass cover is getting higher and higher Higher, higher and higher..." The worker in the worn-out cotton coat took out a match and scratched the hem of the cotton coat on the dry waistband of his trousers. With a chirping sound and a bit of choking smoke, the match was lit.

What they hold in their hands are all the cigarettes they roll themselves. It won’t take long to walk from here to a bustling big city, but the consumption in that city is beyond what they can imagine. They still honestly use a box of 100 Five matches to light these home-grown tobacco rolls.

More than 20 people are sitting at the construction site in the Eastern Mountains. The support structure like a huge tunnel built with wood and steel as the main body above their heads can well block the falling stones from both sides of the canyon. Whenever they encounter stones that cannot be removed manually When blasting is needed, the blasting will cause the sides of the artificially opened canyon to crack continuously, and large and small stones will easily hurt people when they fall down. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of workers and a stable working environment, United Construction Engineering, They made an almost closed channel with a rectangular structure in this opened canyon.

At this time, it was the turn of these workers to rest, and the United Construction Engineering provided three times the daily salary for these workers who did not go home during the New Year's Eve until the end of January 15th. This bonus is very attractive, and many people choose to stay. If it is done at the end of the month, it is equivalent to getting two months' salary after working for one month. This is very tempting for workers.

Following a violent explosion, the canyon walls that had been flattened on both sides shook slightly, and pieces of cracked stones fell from above and hit the bracket, causing the bracket to twist slightly.

This kind of thing happens many times every day, and everyone has long been accustomed to it. It won’t be long before the construction machinery will clean up the stones accumulated on the bracket to ensure that the weight on the bracket does not exceed the maximum bearing capacity of the bracket itself. Then these workers will climb out on ladders and carry out engineering work on the cliff.

A dirty woman who was also wrapped in an old cotton coat and a hood came in pushing a dining cart. In addition to some beef mixed with wheat kernels, there were also a lot of cheap spirits and some hot drinks. When signing the contract, the City Hall of Odis City required basic guarantees. They must provide workers with places to heat and food in winter.

The exhausted workers silently retrieved their lunch boxes from the dining car. While drinking the hot and somewhat bitter pot washing water, they gorged on food. This was the happiest time of the day for them. . There's never been a more comfortable time to be able to fill your stomach and rest a while without working.

There are forty or fifty similar rest points throughout the project, and one such rest point will be established every time a section of the mountain is excavated. In addition to vertical construction, there is also horizontal construction that needs them to do. Although construction machinery is very powerful, not everything can be done.

As for the worker who wanted to show off what he had in his stomach, he also lost his mind to show off under the temptation of food, and there was only the sound of swallowing in the quiet space.

Suddenly, a worker raised his head and looked back and forth, "Did you hear that? There seems to be something."

"What can I have?" The worker next to him muttered, "Hurry up and eat your food, you can sleep for an hour after eating, if you don't want to sleep, I will report you if you are lazy at work in the afternoon.", He He is the foreman of this project section, and his main job is to lead everyone to carry out construction on the stone walls on both sides of the canyon that has been blasted and cleaned up a little bit, and at the same time record who did it well and who did not.

The joint construction workers from the Federation are more aware of the role of internal competitiveness and role models under the group effect than some capitalists in the empire. Every day, three people in each construction section will get an extra one dollar reward.

This is enough to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, especially after they have formulated more reward rules and punishment rules, everyone is working hard, and few people choose to be lazy.

Every morning, an engineer would come to spray paint. The area where the green paint was sprayed had to be reinforced, and the area where the red paint had been sprayed had to be knocked out. Three shifts of people worked in a continuous cycle day and night, pushing the work process to the extreme.

At the beginning, the person who spoke was a little inexplicably worried. He picked up the lunch box and walked towards the support point used to support the ceiling. There is a layer of iron wire and steel bars entangled on the thick wood of the two people, which not only has a certain hardness, but also has enough earthquake resistance. .

He just walked into one of the supporting pillars and before he had time to look carefully, suddenly a piece of sawdust flew into his face with a whistling sound, hitting his face so painfully, he looked down and jumped out from the lunch box. Suddenly there is an unspeakable fear spreading rapidly in the inner world, just like restless animals before an earthquake and birds running away before a storm.

The weird sound in his ears seemed to be louder, and there was another swoosh, and a piece of wood the size of a palm collapsed and flew out, flying against his body and flying to the ground.

He suddenly turned his head and looked into the dark depths like a tunnel. A gust of wind quickly blew past, and it took two or three seconds before there was a dull explosion in his ears! The lights hanging on the tunnel wall dimmed several times in a row. Everything that happened here was no different from five minutes ago, except for the flying fragments.

At the same time, at the headquarters of United Construction Engineering in the Federation, an engineer who was too drunk woke up from a hangover. When he opened the window and saw the heavy snow in the sky, a language of praising the snow scene just grew in his heart. . The next second, a strong heart palpitation made his whole body start to tremble. He immediately rushed to the phone beside the bed, dialed the dial with trembling fingers, and called the Federal Institute of Meteorology.

"Is it snowing heavily on the Empire side too?"

He was answered by a slightly magnetic middle-aged man's voice, who said half-jokingly, "Don't you know about the O'Neil phenomenon? My answer is 'yes'. The north of Del has been covered with ice and snow, and there is still heavy snow or even blizzard in the central area. What's the matter? Do you have relatives over there? Ah, I forgot, your company is constructing there..."

The engineer trembled all over. He hung up the phone and quickly dialed the international telephone line switching office. After about seven minutes, the busy signal sounded on the phone's receiver. He waited anxiously for five or six minutes before the phone was answered.

Without waiting for the other party to say anything, he almost roared and shouted: "Evacuate all the workers in the mountain operation immediately, immediately!"

A lot of things happened in this short period of time, but the worker standing in front of the pillar didn't know it. Before he knew it, the lunch box in his hand had dropped to the ground, and the slightly hot food was radiating from the side. Weak steam, while cooling rapidly. The workers behind him stopped eating strangely and looked at him.

He gently stroked the pillar with one hand, turned his head sideways, and looked at the workers behind him, "I think this pillar can't bear it..."

In the next second, there was a cracking sound of beng, the sound of a steel wire being straightened violently, a twisted piece of steel suddenly shot out from the top of the tunnel, whirring and flying into it at a strange angle. to his body, and came out from the side of the thigh and stuck in the ground. The steel bar kept him from collapsing immediately, and he didn't even feel the pain. He lowered his head and touched the half of his body that had lost consciousness, and then glanced at the steel bar that had pierced through his thigh and was exposed.

Everyone was shocked by the sudden and huge change. They stood up and rushed towards him in horror. Some people rushed towards the alarm bell on the cliff, but more steel bars shot down from the ceiling with the sound of continuous twisting and cracking. The wooden part of the pillars began to crack obviously, and the steel bars and wires were twisting and whining.

A shadow covered everyone's hearts, everyone's first action was to look at the tunnel entrance in the distance like a needle's eye, and then run away!

After a sound not weaker than an explosion appeared, the latest seismograph in the research room of the earthquake-related research group of the Imperial Research Institute discovered a small-scale earthquake in the southeastern part of the empire. The intensity was not high, and the earthquake was not even felt. Therefore, the researcher on duty at this time only recorded the matter in the notebook used for daily information collection, and did not report it to the superior.

Fifteen minutes later, Du Lin, who was chatting with local celebrities and businessmen who came to visit him, apologized, stood up, walked aside, and answered the phone. It only took a few seconds for his face to turn from full of smiles to gloomy horror. After a while, he hung up the phone and walked to the middle of the room, "I'm very sorry, gentlemen and ladies, I have something very urgent. I need to go back to Odis. I am deeply sorry for this, and I solemnly invite everyone to visit Odis if you have time.”

"Sorry!"

As he walked out, he asked Jose to call Thomas and asked him to send a speedboat to take him back to Odis. Something big happened this time!

The auxiliary body of the project collapsed completely, and at least seven hundred people were buried in the canyon. It is possible that this number will increase even more, because some temporary workers came to the New Year's salary increase, and they were not registered in the worker list. middle.

Du Lin didn't believe what those people said about waiting for rescue. There is no doubt that the vast majority of these people should have died, and more than a thousand people may have died at once. This is definitely the most serious safety incident in the history of the empire. ACCIDENT!

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